Language documentation ( was Re: Computing Industry shams)

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alex goldman <hello at spamm.er> writes:

> vermicule wrote:
>
>> 
>> What is so hard to understand ?
>> Should be perfectly clear even to a first year undergraduate.
>> 
>> As for "greedy" even a minimal exposure to Djikstra's shortest path
>> algorithm would have made the concept intuitive. And from memory,
>> that is the sort of thing done in Computing 101 and in  Data Structures
>> and Algorithms 101
>> 
>> It seems to me that you want the Python doc to be written for morons.
>> And that is not a valid complaint.
>
> He's right actually. If we understand the term "greedy" as it's used in
> graph search and optimization algorithms, Python's RE matching actually IS
> greedy.

If we, more reasonably, use the meaning of "greedy" that is commonly
used when talking about regular expressions, there is nothing wrong
with the Python docs, and Xah Lee remains the troll he has always
been.

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